From The A-J's Pages

Posted: August 6, 2012 - 11:19pm

25 years ago:

Odessa — A group of high school students are attempting to start a program that offers intoxicated teenagers a ride home in the belief that their project will make the drunken youths less dangerous to themselves and others. The group, which calls itself Students Offering Driving Assistance — or SODA — wants to establish a taxi service to pick up drunken students and drive them home, said Pat Mayers, a student at Odessa High School.

50 years ago:

Paul Humphries and Fred Hudgeons made their rounds Monday to inspect the fire alarm boxes strategically located on utility poles over town. Several of the boxes had water in them from recent rains. The red light bulbs were still burning. What really surprised the two, however, were two boxes in which the bulbs were not burning. Closer inspection showed water actually inside the bulbs. “One of them was half-full,” the men reported. “How the rain could get inside the bulbs, we can’t imagine.”

75 years ago:

Hotel Lubbock’s Coffee Shop and the Pioneer Room are now air conditioned for your comfort. Just another modern comfort improvement for our local and out-of-town friends to enjoy during these blistering days. A six course dinner is served for 50 cents.

100 years ago:

The Lubbock to Clovis extension of the Santa Fe system, which has been in projection for the last two years is now in process of materialization, active construction work having been started at the Lubbock end the first of the present week.